Down - the only direction for Sarko

Pity he was found out too late. Was it Cecilia?

clipped from mail.google.com Sondages. Affichage de la vie privée, pouvoir d'achat, style de gouvernement : depuis janvier, la cote de Nicolas Sarkozy est inférieure à celle de son premier ministre. Un décrochage brutal, mais pas inédit sous la Ve République.

Why Having The Top Doctors Association Say "YES" to Medical Marijuana is a Historic Endorsement

Does it say anything about the rush to criminalise everything?

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Why Having The Top Doctors Association Say "YES" to Medical Marijuana is a Historic Endorsement

2/20/2008 9:28:30 PM

The American College Of Physicians is the second biggest doctor's organization in America, consisting of 124,000 physicians. Yesterday the college issued a statement pointing to strong evidence that marijuana is useful in treating AIDS wasting syndrome, glaucoma, and easing side effects from cancer.

Here is a summary of their main argument:

"Position 1: ACP supports programs and funding for rigorous scientific evaluation of the potential therapeutic benefits of medical marijuana and the publication of such findings.

Position 2: ACP encourages the use of non-smoked forms of THC that have proven therapeutic value.

Position 3: ACP supports the current process for obtaining federal research-grade cannabis.

Position 4: ACP urges review of marijuana's status as a schedule I controlled substance and its reclassification

Position 5: ACP strongly supports exemption from federal criminal

Israeli MP Blames Gays for Earthquakes

In a time of crisis any spacegoat is handy. Worse, there are many ready to believe

clipped from blog.washingtonpost.com Forget tectonic plates. According to Shlomo Benizri, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish member of the Knesset, homosexuality causes earthquakes. During a committee hearing on disaster preparedness, Benizri, a member of the Shas Party, reportedly urged lawmakers to "stop passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes." Benizri was referring in part to a decision last week by Israel's attorney general granting adoption rights to same sex couples. Israel which decriminalized homosexuality in 1988, experienced at least two tremors measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale last week. "God says you shake your genitals where you are not supposed to and I will shake my world in order to wake you up," Benizri reportedly explained to the parliamentary committee on disaster preparedness.

Aristides Sousa Mendes

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Monsanto's Udder Disgrace

The milk labeling controversy - and other corporate practices of Monsanto - have been issues for years. For a while every time I saw my Senator, I would greet him with the same comment, "Hey Bernie, when are you going to do something about Monsanto?" Senator Bernie would shake his head and raise his hands in frustration.

I often heard him say that no matter how bad you think things are in Washington, they are really much worse. While the Congress is distracted with growth hormones taken by sports figures, our farm animals are being abused with other hormones. Baseball players have a free choice. Cows don't.

None of us have a choice. Not if Monsanto has anything to say about it and they do. Money talks.

clipped from mwcnews.net I won't say that cows suffer painful mastitis because of injections of Monsanto's BGH. I won't say that Monsanto puts profits ahead of the health of all of us. Monsanto, known for its strong-arm legal tactics, is opposing the labeling of ice cream. BGH, otherwise known as Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, is a drug developed to increase bovine milk production. Ben & Jerry's is fighting for the right to continue to label ice cream that is made with milk from BGH-free cows. Monsanto's position, which was supported by the USDA was that consumers did not have the right to that information. The food chain is under worldwide assault by U.S. corporations. The Master Race of corporations has seized control of the very essence of life itself. We are now in the age of Genetically Modified Doomsday Seeds. Why has there been no public discussion on who should have control of the planetary gene pool?

Two mums plus dad made this embryo

There are embryos that are described as 'spare'
It breaks my heart.
It's experimental, with no guarantee of success, and the prospects for abuse by those with no scruples cannot be imagined. There are better ways of doing things, but, in the 21st century, life is a four letter word.

clipped from www.abc.net.au Ben Hirschler Scientists have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope could lead to effective treatments for some hereditary diseases. An experimental technique that uses spare IVF embryos could one day be used to treat mitochondrial disease, UK scientists say. But not everyone's so sure this is the answer to curing such serious, hereditary conditions Researchers from the UK's Newcastle University, presented their findings at the recent Medical Research Council Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases conference in London. The IVF embryos were created using DNA from one man and two women. The idea is to prevent women with faults in their mitochondrial DNA passing diseases on to their children. Around one in 5000 children suffer from mitochondrial diseases, which can include fatal liver, heart and brain disorders, deafness, muscular problems and forms of epilepsy. researchers believe they may be able to start offering the technique as a treatment in three to five years.

Mississippi to Ban Feeding the Obese

"Freedom fries." How hollow that sounds.

The time is 7:15. You are under arrest for breach of the Bacon & Cheese Burger Patriot Act. You have the duty to remain silent (and hungry). Anything you say, can and will be tortured out of you. You do not have the right to an attorney. None will be afforded to you. Now lay down those onion rings and put your greasy hands behind your back!!

clipped from www.needcoffee.com Mississippi to Ban Feeding the Obese I'm sure there were some of you out there that thought, "Gee, Widge, things aren't that bad with government. Surely Right. Submitted as Exhibit B: House Bill 282 from the State of Mississippi. The following text has been retyped to actually be in upper and lower case letters so it doesn't look like the bill in question is shouting at you even though, in reality, it is: "An act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health; to direct the Department to prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese and to provide those materials to the food establishments; to direct the Department to monitor the food establishments for compliance with the provisions of this act; and for related purposes." mindless sheep you need to be protected from yourself poor dears.

Jimmy Carter, "Barack Obama extraordinary, a healing force"

Words of praise for Barack Obama, from a man whose morale character towers over republican family values pretenders.

clipped from politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com Carter lavished praise on Barack Obama. One former president has long assumed a very outspoken role in the presidential race. Now another is speaking up the former president lavished praise on Barack Obama, calling his campaign "extraordinary" "Obama's campaign has been extraordinary and titillating for me and my family," Carter told the newspaper Carter was particularly praiseworthy of the Illinois senator's rhetorical skills Carter also said Obama "will be almost automatically a healing factor in the animosity now that exists, that relates to our country and its government Carter, a onetime governor of Georgia and one of only two Democrats to win the White House in the last forty years, also said he thinks Obama's candidacy could put several southern states in play in a general election match up clipped from www.culturekitchen.com Barack Obama clipped from newsfromthegreenroom.blogspot.com former Democratic Virginia Governor Doug Wilder says Obama could shatter the Republican Party's virtual lock on the south. Wilder is the current mayor of Richmond